#secretrobin

Today I discovered an online figure drawing database that’s free!! These drawings range from 30 second to 15 min studies. The site allows you to choose a baseline time to draw at (30 sec, 10 mins, an hour etc) or a class style drawing period!!! Where it’ll filter through a couple figures at 30 secs, a min, 5 mins, then 10 or more depending on if you choose a 30 min class style or more! The photos are some antique, some contemporary, you can choose nudes or clothes images, specific body parts or animals and all of that!!! And did I mention it’s free!!!! And full of incredible reference photos!!!! Though the body types could certainly be more inclusive unfortunately. There are two sites I found (via @robinsealark) that do this: reference.sketchdaily.net & line-of-action.com/practice-tools These are incredible resources!!! I’m obsessed!!! . . . #figuredrawing #drawingresources #secretrobin #drawingexercises #sketches #nudefigure #nudefiguredrawing https://www.instagram.com/p/BwdXfd_HSRO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=93c58nx1mi6o

Painting on pennies (and a dime) 🎨 the landscapes are on pennies, after Bob Ross, and the eye is on a dime 💰👁🌄

“Transparent Lives” - For #secretrobin this month, the art hurdle I’m attempting to get over is finishing. Working consistently on all the pieces that have a little bit of potential in them, a shred of save-ability, and seeing them out and through. This is one of them. - 10” x 10” Paper, bee hive, ink, acrylic, found object, & tissue paper on found art - #artbrut #pdxartist #theartofeverything #TaoE #mixedmediacollage #foundobjectcollage #colorfulcollage @robinsealark #rawvisionmagazine (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUnX_JpRqR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Transparent Lives” - For #secretrobin this month, the art hurdle I’m attempting to get over is finishing. Working consistently on all the pieces that have a little bit of potential in them, a shred of save-ability, and seeing them out and through. This is one of them. - 10” x 10” Paper, bee hive, ink, acrylic, found object, & tissue paper on found art - #artbrut #pdxartist #theartofeverything #TaoE #mixedmediacollage #foundobjectcollage #colorfulcollage @robinsealark #rawvisionmagazine (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUnX_JpRqR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Hung(er)” —- We’re always striving, searching, for that next thing, the next person, accomplishment, drug, way of being in life, that will somehow make everything ok. Only then we can rest. —- We can rest right now. Chase and chase, get hung up again and again. Until we realize - there is no there. Just here. —- The hunger hangs you. And saves you. —- Part of the ‘One Word’ series. Paper and graphite on canvas board. 5” x 8” (Francis Bacon inspired mouth) —- #secretrobin #surrealcollage #baconart #mouthart #nooseart #pdxartist (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgXvDaPviat/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Pockets of Crushed and Broken Boredom” 9 w x 12 h inches - For the #secretrobin ‘Everyday Magic’ challenge, I had wild ambition to print out a bunch of pictures (3rd pic) and assemble them in some sort of meaningful way (2nd pic). - Alas, it did not come together, and so I started an Abstract Placing. It turned into a little lonely guy (or girl?) making their way in the world. Or trying to. But still whistling. - - #foundobjectart #foundobjectcollage #pdxartist #trashart #garbageart #foundobjects #foundobjectfigure #theartofeverything #Tao-E (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeR8FLHvPP7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Began in 2017, this piece finished itself just in time for the #secretrobin challenge. - It’s been a journey from 2017 to now, and many others in the series have long been completed, but the saga of “Sea Series 3” has concluded. - See my story for a time lapse of this piece! - #pdxartist #foundobjectart #foundobjects #garbageart #oceanart #seaart #boatart #shipart #sailboatart #birdart #foundobjectboat #TheArtOfEverything (at Multnomah Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkbrRbPdtL/?utm_medium=tumblr

Was trying to think of what would work for the #secretrobin theme of “Remembering 2021,” but summing up a even a day can be difficult, let alone a year. So the best I could come up with were these two pieces, made on vacation using materials found there, and with a little assistance from Amaya, who’s been such a big part of this year and every year since she was born. So fitting in that way too. - In order (and now on eBay & Etsy!): “Panda Bear Jungle Muffin” - “Circumstantial Seas” (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXKiPiuFmWn/?utm_medium=tumblr